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Wrong size on 2nd hard drive after ghost
Name: all thumbs Date: May 30, 2001 at 07:10:36 Pacific
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I installed a larger hard drive as slave to copy files before switching to primary. I used Norton Ghost 5, a demo version. I did a disk to disk. Now my system reports the larger hard drive as the same size as the 1st which is only half as big as it is. What did I do wrong and how do I get it back to original size being read by my computer? Help! Thanks.
Name: Gregoryglen Date: May 30, 2001 at 08:57:13 Pacific
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Where is it reporting the wrong size from? The bios? from windows? What version of Windows? If you are using Windows 95 then the largest drive size will be 8 gig.
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Response Number 2
Name: wcr3d Date: May 30, 2001 at 11:07:32 Pacific
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Run Scandisk and it should fix the problem. wcr3d
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Response Number 3
Name: all thumbs Date: May 30, 2001 at 11:15:41 Pacific
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It is reporting the wrong size in windows in My Computer window. My Os is win 98SE. The primary drive I copied was 10GB and the slave is 17GB, but after ghost in My Computer window it is reported as the same as primary drive. I have run Scandisk and it is still coming up reporting the disk size in 2nd drive as 10GB,
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Response Number 4
Name: Gregoryglen Date: May 30, 2001 at 11:18:18 Pacific
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Okay what you need to do is re-image the drive this time when it prompts you for the size of the drive change the drive size to reflect the entire amount of the 17 gig drive.
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Response Number 5
Name: wcr3d Date: May 30, 2001 at 13:41:02 Pacific
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Or try going from disk to partition. When I do it this way it auto sizes and all is fine. wcr3d
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Response Number 6
Name: all thumbs Date: May 31, 2001 at 06:43:36 Pacific
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I tried to re-image as you said to Gregoryglen, but it does not allow me to change anything, and wcr3d it does not have disk to partition, it only has disk to disk; to image; from image. Perhaps I need to tell again this is a Symantic 3 in 1 pack that came free with a motherboard I had ordered, so I am assuming it is a demo or something although it doesn't say so. It has Norton antivirus, ghost & virtual drive on it. I would reformat the drive and start over, but I get the message that it can't be formatted while being accessed through my computer, and I don't know how else to bring it up except in dos prompt and the command format d:/s gives bad command error.
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